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DBMS_STATS for a Partitioned table [message #462229]

Wed, 23 June 2010 04:34

Ankurg1981
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Hi All,

This issue is a bit urgent for me. Any immediate help will be very useful.

I have a partitioned table with 29 partitions each having 3 subpartitions

This table is truncated daily and fresh data is loaded. Approx 20 mn every day

I have a process that updates 2-3 columns of this table and does some kind of reporting using this table and this process takes 5 - 7 mins to run.
I have to gather stats daily on this table to ensure that my reporting process runs effectively

I am using DBMS_STATS to do that. But it takes 40 mins to 1 hr to gather stats Sad

exec DBMS_STATS.gather_table_stats (user,'Table',estimate_percent=>100,degree=>8,cascade=>TRUE);

Is there is any way I can speed up this process???
I want to complete stats gathering in less than 5-10 mins
This table is populated throughout the day. Is there is any way I can do incremental stats gathering ?

Thanks in advance

- Ankur

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Re: DBMS_STATS for a Partitioned table [message #462323 is a reply to message #462229]

Wed, 23 June 2010 09:20

Mahesh Rajendran
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Always post the exact Oracle Version with 4 digits and OS.
As far I know, incremental statistics is available from 11g.
Agree with you, gathering global stats could be very painful.
>>I have a process that updates 2-3 columns of this table
Is that restricted to a single partition?

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Re: DBMS_STATS for a Partitioned table [message #462325 is a reply to message #462229]

Wed, 23 June 2010 09:26

Mahesh Rajendran
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Search metalink for "APPROX_GLOBAL AND PARTITION".
Seems it is an alternative for incremental statistics in 10g ( with some constraints) and the database needs to be on 10.2.0.5

Edit:
More information and write up here.
http://optimizermagic.blogspot.com/2009/02/maintaining-statistics-on-large.html

As usual, first test in a safe non-production environment.

[Updated on: Wed, 23 June 2010 09:27]

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Re: DBMS_STATS for a Partitioned table [message #462386 is a reply to message #462229]

Wed, 23 June 2010 21:21

hkchital
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Registered: September 2008
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UPDATE : See the EDIT below.

If you are TRUNCATing the table and reloading data every day and (I presume) not actually creating new partitions ........
any incremental statistics method wouldn't work.

However, you can *restore* statistics using DBMS_STATS.RESTORE_TABLE_STATS. Thus, you could restore the previous days statistics back. Of course, if you keep doing this every day, your statistics would become "stale", so you could do a Gather_Stats once a week or so.
Restore Table Statistics would work if
a. the data volumes are similar day-to-day
b. data skew is similar day-to-day
However, any columns that store date and sequence values that increment every day may need refreshing of statistics as actual values may soon be beyond the range of min/max stored in the statistics.

EDIT : If you are TRUNCATing the table do you check the statistics on the table after the truncate ? The HighWaterMark would be reset but statistics would still be usable so you wouldn't even have to re-Gather or restore statistics if data volume and data skew don't change significantly from one day to the next.

Hemant K Chitale

[Updated on: Wed, 23 June 2010 23:14] by Moderator

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